Splice Lo-Fi

This week, we're chatting with Darathtey from Cambodia — she writes the Campuccino newsletter on Substack. All the news about Cambodia delivered to your inbox. She explains how she got started and where things are headed.

We're finally saying hello properly to our friend Aulia Masna at Indonesian media startup Asumsi, who's been hanging around this audio room since we started. We talked about how he's growing their audience, new products... and this little thing that blew our minds: Did you know that Indonesian politicians are sponsoring esports to reach younger audiences?

This week, we spoke with Nabilah Said about her work as the editor of Singapore-based ArtsEquator. She talked about the importance of supporting criticism and analysis, and the training they're doing to raise a generation of great arts writers.

We had a delightful chat with Peiying Loh, who's the co-founder of Kontinentalist, a Singapore-based media startup that tells gorgeous data-driven stories about Asia. We spoke about how the company came together, its business model, and the wonderful team she's assembled.

We caught up with Mongolian creator Anu Harchu. She left her career at Bloomberg TV Mongolia to focus on her thriving brand as a YouTube creator. Plenty of great lessons in here for newsrooms, as well as folks looking to make that jump over to content creation.

Anand Tumurtogoo has had enough of how foreign media talks about Mongolia. He spoke with us about the need to change these stereotypes, the nuances of the media landscape in Mongolia... and the origins of Mongolian names.

Today we've got our good friend Yan Oak, founder of Thibi — a data visualization startup in Singapore. Yan and his team are among the best dataviz folks in the region. We've worked with them on projects in the past and we love the dedication of this crew. We spoke about where dataviz is headed, and what interesting data journalism business models could come out of it.

This week we're chatting with the brilliant Darsh Kandasamy of the Between The Lines newsletter — smart, opinionated perspectives on Malaysian politics. We talked about audience strategy, new formats, and serving her community.

Mithil Aggarwal calls himself a student journalist, but he also produces and hosts a podcast called The Curiously Candid Show that sounds insanely professional. We talked to Mithil about how he stumbled on journalism, and where he's taking podcasting.

We had an amazing Lo-Fi session with Hyderabad-based Suno India's co-founder Padma Priya this morning. We talked about podcasting as a format, conveying difficult issues in audio, and learning to take better care of ourselves and our teams.